Building.



H. G. HUNTER.

BUlLDlNG.

APPLICATION FILED FEB.8.1918.

H. G. HUNTER.

BUILDING.

APPLICATXON FILED FEB. i918.

Patented Oct. 22, l918.

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Specification of ltetters Patent.

Application filed February 8, 1918, Serial o. 216,113.

Y' mobiles and more particularly for the accomowing tothe fact that an allow cars to be taken x standing about. Furthermore, inconvenience modation of automobiles owned by diderent people..

, Heretofore considerable damage to cars has resulted from parking in public garages vattendant was reto admit tenants and out; and damage was frequently caused in parking or running out by interference of the moving car with those quired yat all times has been experienced by the drivers of the cars after having entered thebuilding in entering and leaving `the garages or stalls. My invention has for its object to overcome "these inconveniencesI and at the same time provide argarage building Awhich will afford all the advantages of a private garage for eachtenant and avoidthe necessity of the employment of an attendant, and at the same time economize both space and material.

To this end the invention 'may be said briefly toconsist of'a garage structure coinprising aseries of individual-private garages anda driveway common to the ser1es,rthe garagrs being disposed in oblique arrangement relatively to the driveway; while the door of each garage is of a particular type adapted to be accommodated in the space presented by the front of each private garage and the exterior of an ad3oining garage the corner of which is caused to protrude owing to the particular angular arrangement.

For full comprehension, however, of my invention, reference must be Vhad to the accompanying drawings in which similar referenceicharacters indicate the same parts, and wherein:

Figure 1 is a part side elevation and part sectional view of garage structure erected according to my invention;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the first street floor, section being taken on line 2-2 Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the structure;

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Fig. 4 'is anl enlarged detailplan yiewfo one of the private garages illustrating mare particularly the door structure; v y ,Y

Fig. 5 is a similar viewto Fig. Q of the floors' above the irst floor; and

interior arrangement and private closed position.

The structure is preferably of rectangular plan viewA and of suicient width to accommodate four series of private garages i "f cated at g, i, and j. The walls fm. and a. olf the structure are preferably parallel and the interior is divided by a longitudinal partition between each end of which and the ends p and g of the structure for elevators r.

My individual garages are arranged in series along each side wall and the opposite l sldes of the partltion and the relative width of the structure and length. of the indi vidual garages of each series, `transtec ly to the structure, are such that a pair of longitudinal spaces t are provided between the middle and side garages, such spaces beraieneeaoee. as, ziaria.v

ig. 6 is a front elevation of one of the garages lllustrating'the doors in spaces are provided I ing slightly greater in width than the width of the individual garage.

tively. narrow longitudinal driveways common to all thc individual garages at each side of the structure, and I make provision for this relatively narrow driveway by including the garages of each series toward one end of the structure, greatest economy in space being obtained by inclining the garages of all four series to ward the same end of the structure, entrances@ being formed in that end wall to communicate with the respective driveways, while outlets c are correspondingly located in the opposite end. This particular oblique arrangement of the 'garages permits a car to be driven into the structure through one of the entrances, along the common drive- These compara r spaces scr-ve asl way to the dparticular garage in which it is y dool` frame 5 at the corner w. The dimen' sions of the garages and the angle of inclination are such that the protrudlng corner w is of suiiicient depth to accommodate theY door whenfolded in open position. In this manner the common driveway is not in any Way obstructed by the door when thrown open7 neither is the interior of thg garage encroached upon.

In order to accommodate oil, cleaning cloths, tools, etc., a closet'lO isformed in the innermost corner and preferably provided With lock and key in order that when the car is taken out, the door of the garage may be left open to facilitate returning the car.

lThe structure illustrated has three floors, the first, 12, the street floor, and the second 13, being equipped With the series of oblique garages, lWhile the top floor 14, is left open to permit the cars being parked without 'individual garages, thistop ioor being more in the nature of a public garage, whereas -the individual garages of the first and second floors are of the nature and afford all the advantages of private garages'. Communication is effected between the iioors by the elevators 1", and staircases 20. .In order to facilitate Washing the cars, Washing stands 25 with proper washing drainage facilities are provided at the entrance end of the structure, and thelindividual garagesJ system communicates with the respective garages. The system indicated consists of pipes 30 communicating with all garages in vertical line and having branches 31 leading to the top 'of the garages; While the doors are preferably raised a short distance from the floor, by casters 32,.'to provide space to admit air, and air is also admitted by openings 33 in the wall over the doors and communicating with the passages.

What I claim is as follows:

A garage structure comprising a building containing a series of individual private garages and a driveway common to the same, the said garages being disposed in oblique arrangement relatively to the driveway, the angle of Obliquity of all the garages being inclined toward one and the saine end of the series, the respective garages .each having a corner protrudinginto the driveway and doors for closing the garages and constructed and arranged to be accommodated within the space presented by the end of each individual garage, and the protruding corner ofthe next individual garage.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of GORDON G. COOKE, WILLIAM J. C. Hnwn'rson.

two Witnesses. 

